Tie for packages.



PATENTED MAR. 13, 1906.

' J. S. WILLIAMSON.

TIE FOR PACKAGES.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 27. 1905.

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PATENT OFFICE.

\ OF ELIZABETHTOWN, NORTH CAROLINA.

T|E FOR PACKAGES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN S. WILLIAMSON, the United States residing at Elizabethtown, in the county?) Bladen and- Stateof North Carolina, .have invented certam new and useful Improvements in .Ties

for Packages, of which the following is a specification. r This invention comprises a novel form of tie desi ed for securing packages or the like. Simp icity. and cheapness construction are'the essential features of advantage sessed by a tie embodying the construction in facilitating invention, the being very advanta eous also the attachment. of t e tie to a package in the practical use of the same.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a owledge' of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which igure 1 is a erspectlve view of the inven-.

tion applied. i 2 is a perspective view of the tie, showing t e same before it is a plied to a package, the View looking toward t e under side of the band. Fig. 3 1s a transverse sectional view through the tie,'showin more clearly the manner of attaching the astenlug-tongues forming a part thereof. Fig. 4' is a view of a modification of the invention. Corresponding and like parts are referred description and indicated to in the followln in all the views o the drawings by the same reference characters.

In the drawings the numeral 1 designates a band, which is preferably of metal and of a suitable length such as general uses. The band passed: about may be desired for 1 is adapted to 'be' a package or the hke one or more times, dependent upon the size of the package and the length of the tie, the end portions of the band 1 this invention. .One end of the band 1 is cut away at o posite sides thereof to form opposite shoul ers 2 in spaced relation, and these shoulders are adapted to be engaged by spaced tongues 3, arranged laterally of the opposite end the band 1'. As shown lnFitgTs. 1, 2 and 3, the tongues 3 are separate om t e applied thereto opening 4 in* the band .1.

the tongues'areapplied to the band 1 is dis 1i band 1, and said tongues are The ton formed integrally with a head 5, w 'ch when Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed June 27, 1905- Serial N01 26 7,259.

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erence to the being secured together; by means which forms the primary feature of by being passed through an es 3 are Patented March 13, 1906.

tongues 3 bein passed through the opening 4 and disposed atwise upon the opposite side of the band. The head 5 and the formation of tlfie tongues 3 when bent back'flatwise of the tongues from being displaced from the band, the same therefore forming a permanent part of the tie. When bent flatwise of the band 1, the tongues 3, as shown in Fig. 2, project beyond the edges of the band, and any pair of these tongues may be refolded upon themselves in order to be engaged with the shoulders 2 of the band after the latter has been wrapped or passed about the package prop- It is designed that a' number of sets of the tongues'3 be applied to the end portion of the band which carries the tongues in order to afford a nicety of adjustment of the tie in securing packages very compactly.

Fig. 4 shows a construction in which the tongues 6 perform substantially the same notion as the tongues 3 described with refconstruction in the first three figures of the drawings, and the tongues 6 are also arranged at opposite edges of the band 1, being integral therewith, however, instead of forming a part of a separate member. The band 1 at intervals in the end portion thereof which carries the tongues 6 is formed with a plurality of spaced lateral slits 6 and these slits separate a portion of the band from the bod; thereof to form the tongues 6,which are flexible and which may therefore be readily bent toward each other, so as to en age the shoulders 2 u on the opposite en of the band, asv described hereinbefore.

The tongues 7 in Fig. 4 are formed by the slits 7. These tongues 7 are somewhat longer than the tongues 6, and said tongues 7 are designed to form spaced kee the end portion of the band 1, w ch is formed with the shoulders 2, thekeepers 7 constituting a loop through which said end portion of the band will slide when adjusting tie to pack' ages and assisting in preventing displacement or disengagement of the tongues 3 and 6 from the said shoulders 2. Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. A tie consistin one end with spaced s arranged laterally at opposite edge portions of the other end of the tie and adapted to be folded u on themselves and engage the spaced shouders before mentioned, and other of a band provided at ers to engage posed upon one side of the band 1, the x and 1 is such as to readily prevent the g g r 814,758

spaced tongues arranged similar to those first 1 band and are bent flatwise upon the opposite mentioned and adapted to engage over the E-side, the extremities oi the tongues being reend of the tie having the spaced shoulders to folded or bent over into engagement with the hold said spaced shouldersinengagement with E shoulders at the end of the band above men- 'the first-mentioned ton es. tioned.

v2. A tie consisting o a band provided at In testimony whereof I afiixmy signature 1 one end with-spaced shoulders, spaced laterin presence of two witnesses.

ally-extending tonguesu on the opposite end JOHN S. WILLIAMSON. [L. s] I of the band, and a hea inte a with said Witnesses: I

tongues and upon one side oft e band while W. E. HALL,

the tongues pass through an opening in the .J. W. HALL. 

